Op-Ed in Pakistan's Jang newspaper by Ayaz Amir...

http://thenews.jang.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=151432

"From which the slow conclusion emerges that it may be time to bid a final farewell to the diplomacy of 'jihad'. There was a time when Pakistan could get away with the sponsoring of cross-border 'jihad'. We did it in Afghanistan, forgetting that what made that such a resounding success was American sponsorship. Profiting by the Afghan experience, and indeed spurred by it, we did it again in Indian-occupied Kashmir. When a few thousand fighters tied down nearly half a million Indian troops we considered it brilliant strategy.

Cross-border terrorism was a term then unknown (incidentally, the man who helped bring it in fashion was Gen Musharraf with his Kargil adventure). But times have changed. Adventures once affordable are no longer so. What was doable 10, 15 years ago is now hazardous business, the international terrain having changed after 9/11."

Shahida

When I see what is perpetrated by Pakistan under the guise of Islam, I shudder. Are your old generals of full of hate for young men that they send them to war for no reason, simply calling it 'religious reasons'? Please remember India has more Muslims than Pakistan and we, thank God, have grownup with democracy and a multi-religious environment. Regarding neighbors, I presume Afghanistan and Iran love you! I also presume you have no problems with Baluchis and Sindh. What will you do when Kashmiri Pakistan reiterates it wants freedom from you and prefers Inda ? Denounce it as one more Indian lie?
You too will have to answer Allah why you sent children to kill your neighbors who have done you no harm but simply because some power hungry generals wanted you to. Pakistan, you are a disgrace to Islam.
In any case, Jinnah, your founder was a Khoja, a Shia and not a Sunni. When will you learn to treat other Muslims well, never mind women, Christians and Hindus?

Shahida

Typical of Pakistani Media!
Presumably the writers are educated,read news and understand the meaning of evidence.Quote from Dawn, leading Pak paper

Pak media outraged by India’s ‘belligerence’
4 Dec 2008, 0122 hrs IST, TNN

Indignation with India’s alleged “belligerence” marks Pakistan’s English language press on Wednesday. Newspaper editorials reject the evidence that the 26/11 terrorists came from Pakistan. Instead, they find India and US ganging up on Pakistan, which they say is the real “victim” of terror.

Dawn’s editorial titled “A go-ahead for India?” says US president-elect Obama is stoking India-Pakistan hostilities. President-elect Barack Obama seemed to have ditched this time-honoured American policy. There are concerns (in Pakistan) that India has benefited from the war on terror and has managed to advance its national interests. Overreaction to New Delhi’s demands would mean disastrous consequences for the region.”

The theme finds resonance in the popular daily from Peshawar and Quetta, the Frontier Post. Its editorial says, “Their (India’s) perceivable intent to link up the Mumbai holocaust’s perpetrators to Pakistan and then to al-Qaida is clearly intended to cash in — diplomatically, politically and militarily — on the current American assertions that it is now not Iraq or Afghanistan but Pakistan which is turning into al-Qaida’s haven.”

The pointing finger swings to India. The editorial adds, “With its demarche served on Islamabad, New Delhi has ratcheted up tensions to a perilous pitch which, if it doesn’t pull back, could go out of hand and boil over into an eventuality...It (India) cannot expect Pakistan to pay up the price for its own security and intelligence apparatus’s collapse. Nor can Pakistan become the guinea pig of its political compulsions or electoral necessities. It indeed is with a pinch of salt that one can take even its evidence.”

(So it is India's lies that the terrorists are from Pakistan!
Has Pakistan totally forgotten what truth is?)

Editorial in the Pakistani newspaper The News

http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=151869

"While conspiracy theories, involving a plot by Indians to frame Pakistan abound, the facts have to be faced up to. No matter how tempting it is to grasp at straws, these theories sound fanciful. It seems certain that Kasab is indeed Pakistani. The 'link' to the country that New Delhi had spoken of and Condoleezza Rice had alluded to, does indeed exist. This for Pakistan is terrible news"